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Higashida Masateru

ヒガシダ マサテル | Higashida Masateru
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate Professor
Homepage URL  (1): https://www.ipc.shimane-u.ac.jp/international-social-work/
Research field  (1): Social welfare
Research keywords  (7): International Social Work ,  Mental Health Social Work ,  Disability and Development ,  Social Psychology ,  CBR/CBID ,  Mongolia ,  Sri Lanka
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (7):
  • 2025 - 2029 Visualizing Narratives of Intersectional Minority Identity and Inter-minority Conflict through TEM Diagrams
  • 2023 - 2028 Collaborative research project on the (Re)construction of International Social Work education in Asia
  • 2024 - 2028 ソーシャルワーカーの国際的・互恵的交流に関する理論的および実践的研究
  • 2021 - 2026 Educational Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Sri Lanka: Developing a model that responds to the country's social context
  • 2022 - 2025 日本におけるマイノリティ集団間の複合と相克に関する当事者団体からの聞き取り研究
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Papers (33):
  • Masateru Higashida, Wanwadee Poonpoksin, Shamini Attanayake, M.T.R., Chulani Herath. Attitudes towards international exchange among social workers in the Asian context: An online survey. International Social Work. 2025. 68. 6. 1014-1031
  • Masateru Higashida. International social work gap or unknown reality?: A geographical perspective for social work education. Social Work Education. 2025
  • Masateru Higashida, Tatsuya Fujii. Incorporating co-created knowledge into mental health social work education in Japan: An organisational case study. Social Work Education. 2024. 43. 9. 2686-2703
  • 東田全央. 国際開発におけるソーシャルワーク-精神保健福祉領域に焦点を当てて-. 精神保健福祉. 2024. 139. 346-350
  • Masateru Higashida. Re-examining international social work theory: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”. Discover Global Society. 2024. 2. 1
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MISC (42):
  • 東田全央. (消えない灯火 第4回)共に生きる-藤井達也先生(その2). 精神保健福祉. 2025. 56. 3. 279-281
  • 東田全央. 国境を越えてソーシャルワーカーが集う機会を. 育てる会ニュース(一般社団法人協力隊を育てる会). 2025. 489. 4-4
  • 東田全央. (消えない灯火 第3回)共に生きる-藤井達也先生(その1). 精神保健福祉. 2025. 56. 2. 214-216
  • Masateru Higashida, Kana Matsuo. Preliminary Report of the Joint Research Study on the Re-Construction of International Social Work Education in Asia. Asian Research Institute for International Social Work. 2025
  • 東田全央. 私のキャリアパス. JICA社会保障・障害と開発プラットフォーム ニュースレター. 2025. 2025年2月号. 7-9
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Books (26):
  • 世界の社会福祉年鑑2025(第25集) 2026年度版
    旬報社 2025 ISBN:4845121425
  • International Handbook of Social Work (Edited by Jorge Garcés Ferrer, Annamaria Campanini, Francisco Ródenas Rigla)
    Tirant Lo Blanch, Spain 2025 ISBN:9788410813465
  • 国際ソーシャルワークー新たな概念構築
    旬報社 2025 ISBN:4845119609
  • The Oxford Handbook of Power, Politics and Social Work
    Oxford University Press, USA 2024 ISBN:0197650899
  • International Social Work of All People in the Whole World: A New Construction (Second edition)
    2024 ISBN:4845119552
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Lectures and oral presentations  (45):
  • ソーシャルワーカーの国際交流に対する態度に関連する要因についての予備的考察~非西洋の文脈に着目して~
    (第60回公益社団法人日本精神保健福祉士協会全国大会・第24回日本精神保健福祉士学会 学術集会 2025)
  • 国境を越えてソーシャルワーカーが集う機会を
    (オンライン帰国後活動報告(主催:日本も元気にする青年海外協力隊OB会) 2025)
  • 国際ソーシャルワーク理論研究ー世紀と境界を越える探究
    (第15回山陰社会福祉研究会 2025)
  • Digitalization on empowering women with disabilities: Overcoming gender barriers
    (The Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Research (SLJCR) Conference 2024 2024)
  • アジアにおけるソーシャルワーク実践家の国境を越える交流の探求~試行的活動からの考察と展望~
    (第59回(公社)日本精神保健福祉士協会全国大会・第23回日本精神保健福祉士学会学術集会 2024)
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Works (8):
  • ソーシャルワーカー隊員をつなぐ団体を設立 学びと情報共有を拡大していきたい
    クロスロード(JICA海外協力隊) 2025 -
  • White paper on disability in Mongolia 2020
    Ministry of Labour and Social Protection 2020 -
  • Promoting the socioeconomic participation of disabled people in rural Sri Lanka: The developmental social work perspective in community-based rehabilitation (Doctoral dissertation, Osaka University)
    Masateru Higashida 2020 -
  • White paper on disability in Mongolia 2019 (English version)
    Ministry of Labour and Social Protection 2019 -
  • How is community participation of disabled youth associated with socio-economic factors in rural Sri Lanka?: Implications for the social model of disability (Master thesis, University of Sheffield)
    Masateru Higashida 2016 -
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Education (5):
  • 2017 - 2020 Osaka University Graduate School of Human Sciences
  • 2017 - 2020 Osaka University Future Faculity Programme, Osaka University
  • 2015 - 2016 The University of Sheffield, Department of Geography, Master of Public Health in International Development (MPH ID) with Distinction
  • 2003 - 2005 Osaka Prefecture University School of Social Welfare Department of Social Welfare
  • 1999 - 2003 Iwate Prefectural University Faculty of Social Welfare Department of Clinical Social Service
Professional career (3):
  • Doctor of Human Sciences (Osaka University)
  • Master of Public Health in International Development (University of Sheffield)
  • Master of Social Welfare (Osaka Prefecture University)
Work history (9):
  • 2024/10 - 現在 Shimane University Faculty of Human Sciences Associate Professor
  • 2022/04 - 現在 Aomori University of Health and Welfare Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Social Welfare Lecturer (part-time)
  • 2022/04 - 2024/09 Asian Research Institute for International Social Work (ARIISW) Head Researcher
  • 2020/07 - 2022/03 Aomori University of Health and Welfare Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Social Welfare Assistant professor
  • 2018/04 - 2020/05 Japan International Cooperation Agency JICA Expert
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Committee career (9):
  • 2025/04 - 現在 JOCVソーシャルワーカー・プラットフォーム 会長
  • 2024/10 - 現在 Asian Research Institute for International Social Work (ARIISW) Program Researcher
  • 2024/09 - 現在 Social Work Innovation, Experiment and Research Center, National University of Mongolia International Advisory Team Member
  • 2024/08 - 現在 日本精神保健福祉士協会 機関誌編集委員
  • 2022/05 - 現在 やどかり研究所運営委員会 運営委員
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Awards (1):
  • 2015/11 - University of Sheffield Japan Postgraduate Merit Scholarship
Association Membership(s) (8):
日本ソーシャルワーク学会 ,  Japanese Association of Social Workers ,  Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare ,  ロータリー学友会 ,  JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKERS ,  Yadokari-kenkyujo (Yadokari Research Institute) ,  JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ,  Faculty of Public Health (UK)
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